[xiii], 145 p. : 26 cm

Collection of stories drawn from the oral tradition of Indian groups in the United States and Canada, with a glossary of words from native languages and a description of the tribal nations

Foreword / by N. Scott Momaday -- Introduction -- Map showing the cultural areas and tribal locations of Native North American groups -- The coming of Gluscabi / Abenaki -- Northeast Woodlands -- The Earth on Turtle's back / Onondaga -- Northeast Woodlands -- Four worlds : the Dine story of creation / Dine [Navajo] -- Southwest -- Loo-wit, the fire-keeper / Nisqually -- Pacific Northwest -- How Grandmother Spider stole the sun / Muskogee [Creek] -- Oklahoma -- Tunka-shila, Grandfather Rock / Lakota [Sioux] -- Great Plains -- Old Man Coyote and the rock / Pawnee -- Great Plains -- Gluscabi and the wind eagle / Abenaki -- Northeast Woodlands -- The hero wins and the swallower of clouds / Zuni -- Southwest -- Koluscap and the water monster / Micmac and Maliseet -- Maritime Provinces -- How thunder and earthquake made ocean / Yurok -- California -- Sedna, the woman under the sea / Inuit -- Arctic regions -- How Raven made the tides / Tsimshian -- Pacific Northwest -- How Coyote was the moon / Kalispel -- Idaho -- How Fisher went to the Skyland : the origin of the big dipper / Anishinabe -- Great Lakes Region -- Spring defeats winter / Seneca -- Northeast Woodlands -- The coming of corn / Cherokee -- North Carolina -- Manabozho and the maple trees / Anishinabe -- Great Lakes region -- Kokopilau, the hump-backed flute player / Hopi -- Southwest -- How turtle flew south for the winter / Dakota [Sioux] -- Midwest -- Gluscabi and the game animals / Abenaki -- Northeast Woodlands -- Awi Usdi, the little deer / Cherokee -- North Carolina -- The origin of death / Siksika [Blackfeet] -- Montana and Alberta -- The White Buffalo Calf Woman and the sacred pipe / Lakota [Sioux] -- Great Plains

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